It's a movie called "White Tiger Legend," and it combines two things that the Walsingham Academy graduate is passionate about - martial arts and digital animation. He is getting oh-so-close to finishing the project, and last week he started an Indiegogo online fundraising campaign in an attempt to finance the final stage.

Kory will turn 36 this week. I have been writing about him since he was in his mid-20s, when I did a story about his work on the "Matrix" films. He is a digital compositor, which means that in the final stages of postproduction, he is one of the technicians who meticulously combines the special effects footage with the live footage to make one seamless image. The work is paintaking, sometimes requiring a week of work to complete a few seconds worth of screen time, and Juul is outstanding at it.

Since we first met, he has worked as a compositor on "Avatar" as well as films in the "Lord of the Rings," "Star Wars" and "Spider-Man" series. He just got back from New Zealand where he was working on Peter Jackson's latest "Hobbit" movie.

Kory first told me about "White Tiger Legend" in 2007. It is an animated film with a story steeped in the history and the philosophy of the martial arts. He had written the screenplay based on a story told to him by his martial arts instructor and was working on making the film. Ever since then, whenever we talk on the phone, the subject comes around to the progress he is making on "White Tiger Legend."

For a while, he put it aside because he could not get financial backing from any studio. But after working on James Cameron's "Avatar," he became inspired to move forward with his own project. He began working with a new motion capture program called PhaseSpace, using the sensors to record not just the physical movements but even the facial expressions of himself and his actors.

The film is largely done now. All that's left is the rendering of the animation - the final of the process, which gives the image its high-quality finish. He is about halfway done with that work, but it is tme-consuming and expensive as he tries to do it all himself.

"If I continue to do it myself, and if I worked at a ridiculous pace, I might be able to finish it in three years," he said. "But with the right help, it should be done in a year."

That's where the Indiegogo campaign comes in. He is trying to raise about $850,000 in two months to help pay for the cost of the rendering. He would be thrilled if some deep-pocketed investor came along, but more realistically, he is hoping to get lots and lots of small donations that can add up.

"It would be great if just a whole bunch of people gae a little bit apiece," he said. "If you could skip coffee for a day and help someone realize a dream ... "